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BACKGROUND O~ THE INVENTION
Many types and mixtures of metal salts and soaps of natural or
synthetic organic acids, particularly carboxylic acids, have been suggested and
commercially offered over several decades. These have been used to supply
5 m etals in forms which are soluble in organic liquids, especially in various
hydrocarbon oils and solvents, to form solutions having various desired properties
and uses. For example such metal containing solutions may be useful as catalysts
such as in fuels or in paints, varnishes and other film forming compositions. Many
of these salts and soaps also have been useful as lubricant additives where high
10 solvent solubility has not been of such importance.
Desire for economy in the production of such materials or for
improved product quality has led to several variations in methods of producing the
metal soap compounds by the classical double decomposition reaction and, as
exemplified by Olson U.S. Patent 2,753,049, by direct metal reaction.
As various organic carboxylic acids ha~e become available in commer-
cial quantities, either from new natural sources, or as syntl-etic acids or
standardized synthetic acid mixtures, the possibility of using these to produce
metallic salts or soaps has been motivated, for example, by a lower price; by a
relative uniformity of the commercial acids; or by a better color, or at times the
20 non-colored, characteristics of the salt products; by higher solubility of the salt
products in various solvents or in other components of ultimate products for which
the metal salt is to be used; or stability in storage of the metal compositions or of
their solutions. Prior art salt or soap compositions contain one mole of a
carboxylate group per equivalent of metal present and they generally have a
25 resinous, non-crystalline structure further characterized by a usual absence oî any
hydroxyl groups.
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Other more complex metal organic compositions aisohave been investigated and marketed. Examples of the complex
compositions are found in, for example, Rinse U.S. Patent
3,~18,287 or Collins et al U.S. Patent 3,941,606.
High metal content with retention of high solubility
has been sought, at times to minimize introduction of material
other than catalytically active metal atoms, for example, into
a process or product environment, to reduce raw material cost
or to minimize weight or volume of the metal composition thereby
reducing required storage space, packaging costs, or freight
and other shipplng costs.
Hence considerable attention has been given in the
prior art to the production of the so-called overbased metal
soaps or compositions, that is, compositions having greater
than one-to-one ratios of metal-to-acid equivalents, for example,
the Piotrowski et al U.S. Patent 3,~27,979 (by a carbonation
process); Le Suer et al 3,312,618, Asseff et al 2,616,904;
2,616,905, 2,616,906, Norman et al 2,595,790; Murphy 3,725,441,
and patents cited in these. The preparation of oil-soluble
metal soaps of various metals and acids and mixtures of acid~,
including some basic lead soaps is described in U.S. 2,584,041.
Water is required in the process and the presence of air is
optional.
SUMMARY OF THE DISCLOSURE
This invention relates to oi7-soluble and hydrocarbon-
soluble, highly overbased transition metal-organic compositions
comprising a metal oxide-hydroxide-carboxylate complex wherein
the metal content which comprises at least one metal which is
a transitional metal is in chemical combination partly with
oxygen in a polynuclear metal oxide crystallite core and partly
with at least two different aliphatic or alicyclic monocar-
box~lic acids or a mixture of one or more aliphatic or alicyclic
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monocarboxylic and aliphatic or aromatic monosulfonic acids
containing at least two carbon atoms as hydroxyl-metal-car-
boxylate and hydroxyl-metal-sulfonate groups, at least one
of the acids being a monocarboxylic acid containin~ at least
seven carbon atoms, and when the second
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acid is also a monocarboxylic acid, the second acid contains a number of carbon
atoms in its longest chain differing by at least two carbon atoms from the total
number of carbon atoms in the other, at least a portion of the carboxylate and
sulfonate groups being hydrogen bonded to oxygen atoms of the core, and the
5 remainder of the carboxylate and sulfonate groups are unbonded and in equilibrium
with the bonded groups, and the ratio of total metal moles to the total moles of
organic acid is greater than one.
The invention also relates to the methods of preparing the highly
overbased transition metal-organic compositions of the invention.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
The present invention is concerned with a new class of transitional
metal organic compositions with metal-to-acid mole ratios somewhat greater than
1 to 1 and generally greater than 2 to 1. These compositions are soluble in
aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbon solvents, especially mineral spirits and light
15 oil, and also in drying oils, despite the very high transitional metal content. The
compositions of the invention characteristically include, in chemical combination
with at least one transitional metal, at least two different organic acid moieties
selected from unsaturated and, with some metals to avoid unwanted side reactions
preferably saturated, aliphatic or alicyclic monocarboxylic acids and oil-soluble
20 sulfonic acids; at least a first one being a monocarboxylic acid moiety. The first
acid should have at least seven carbon atoms. Although there is no critical upper
limit on the number of carbon atoms, 22 carbon atoms is a practical upper limit.
There is no carbon chain restriction on the second acid except that
when the second acid is a carboxylic acid, the longest carhon chain in the second
25 carboxylic acid should differ from the first acid by at least two carhon atoms.
There is no restriction in carbon chain length imposed on any third organic acid
employed as a ligand, nor on any additional acids thus employed. The third or
additional organic acid may be a monocarboxylic or a dicarboxylic acid. Examples
of dicarboxylic acids which are useful include malonic acid, succinic acid, adipic
acid, glutaric acid, pimelic acid, azelaic acid, etc. While one or more of the acids
may be volatile low molecular weight types, combinations of non-volatile acids
which follow the above rules, may also be employed.
The compositions appear from molecular weight determinations to be
polymers, which may be designated as metal oxide- or hydroxide-oxy acylate (i.e.carboxylate) or sulfonate complexes, or where moieties of aliphatic ether alcohols
are included in the compositions, as metal oxide and hydroxide-carboxylate-
alkoxide complexes. The complexes appear to be higher in molecular weight than
the prior art soaps of the same metals.
From X-ray diffraction studies of solids and solutions, and electron
diffraction and microscopy study of solids, it appears that, in the solid solvent-
free compositions of the invention, the ultimate particles each comprise a
metallo-oxy or metallo-oxy-hydroxy crystallite core, surrounded by an amorphous
matrix of organic ligand groups. These groups include bound groups attached
through ionic and hydrogen bonding to the atoms of the core crystallite especially
at its surface, and absorbed unbound organic groups. These complexes may also betermed heterogeneous in respect to such crystalline and non-crystalline structure
within the ultimate particles, and as well with respect to the matrix, inasmuch as
different organic moieties are involved.
The particle size distribution peak is relatively narrow. For a
particular choice of metal and acids, variation in the metal to acid ratio seemsgenerally to change the proportion of crystallite-cored particles, rather than their
size.
The crystal core phases have been found to be ~n3O4 (spinel), CoO
(cubic), Fe3O4 (spinel) and CuO (triclinic~ for spe~imens containing respectively
only manganese, cobalt. iron and copper. Where two different metals are used forthe preparations, even with the second being non-transitional, atoms of the second
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metal are found to be present in the core. When, for example, a cobalt source isincluded with a manganese source in what would be otherwise normally a
preparation of a manganese complex with a spinel type core, the cobalt appears to
replace part of the four-fold coordinated manganese in the spinel arrangement.
It may be here observed that when the transitional metal source is an
oxide, the core crystalline phase contains a metal oxide portion in which the metal
valence is higher than the source oxide.
When only carboxylic acids or carboxylic acid moiety sources (acids,
esters) are used in the preparation, it is believed that the organic moiety or ligand
species is present as a soap-like metal carboxylate-hydroxide component, R-CO2-
M-OH, where the R group is a carbon chain from the acid and M is the transition
metal. Such components engender soap-like characteristics in these compositions.From infrared investigations, it appears that the organic moiety attachment
occurs especially through hydrogen bonding between the hydroxyl on the organic
moiety and oxygen atoms on the surface of the crystal core, though ionic bondingto the core atoms appears also to occur. An absorption type equilibrium is
established between the core with bound organic species and the unbound organic
species which are associated with the core.
The amorphous character of the matrix, resulting from the dissimilar-
ity of the acid moieties, is believed to confer high solubility in aromatic and
aliphatic hydrocarbons (such as xylene and mineral spirits) and for some
compositions to the extent of solution metal contents exceeding 50% by weight.
Each individual crystallite, considered for simplicity of diæcussion as a
cube, is about 50 to lo0A on a side. The crystal unit cell is approximately loR on
a side, and contains ~bout 20 metal oxide or metal hydroxide molecules. The
specific number of molecules, specific unit cell size, and crystal composition
depends on the particular metal in question. Thus one manganese type crystal
with a 10û~ edge contains about 1,000 unit eells or 20,000 metal molecules, or
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with a soR edge, about 125 unit cells or 2?500 metal molecules. The crystal facein a loOR edge core contains about 600 active sites for organic moiety attachment
by hydrogen bonding, which may account for the unusual stability of the
complexes.
In the solvent-free or solid complex compositions of the individual
metals, manganese, cobalt, iron and copper and mixed metals such as manganese-
cobalt, manganese-zinc and manganese~arium, the ultimate particle sizes run
about 50 to loOA on the edge, with a minimum average molecular weight of about
104. However, when the molecular weight determinations are made by vapor
pressure or freezing point depression methods, the apparent molecular weights are
considerably smaller in many of the solvents used, (e.g., carbon tetrachloride
running about from 500 to 1,000), since the number of large weight particles
(comprising crystallite cores with retained bound organic moieties) is far
outnumbered by unbound organic moiety fragments which become dissociated in
solution from their respective original cored particles.
The complexes of this invention also are characterized as amorphous
aggregates of crystalline-cored particles which arise due to the affinity of onecomplex particle for another. A typical aggregate or cluster size, of 200-500A on
a side varying for different metals, may represent a cluster of up to about 250
individual crystals. In solutions, the aggregate size on the one hand, or the degree
of dissociation on the other, is a function of the solvent, the temperature, and the
solution concentration.
The degree of association of these complexes thus varies in different
solvents such as carbon tetrachloride, benzene, triehlorobenzene and cyclohexane.
In dissociating solvents, such as carbon tetrachloride, the degree of associa$ion in
comparison to prior art metal soaps averages about five. In any solvent, a near
integral multiple value is usually encountered.
A typic~l crystal of this type OI composition would be representable by
$he empirical formula,
a)b (HO-M-Rl)C ~HO-M-R2)d~ f ;
wherein
M is a metal atom with valence greater than one, is a transitional
metal in the majority of metal occurrences in the composition, and
each M may represent different metals;
L is an oxygen or a hydroxyl group;
R~ is an organic monocarboxylate group;
R2 is an organic monocarboxylate or monosulfonate group;
a is from about one to two;
b is greater than one;
c and d are each greater than zero, and c ~ d is at least three; and
f is at least one.
Ether alcohols or polyols may be used in addition to the acid sources or in place of
a part of the R2-containing ligand.
In addition to usefulness based on known applications of the cont~ined
metals, or on the high metal content with retained solubility in hydrocarbons, or
on relatively low toxicity for some metal types as compared with other high metal
content organic compositions, various of these new compositions exhibit also
efficacies for equal metal content exceeding prior soluble metal compositions, or
new utilities.
The major application for these complexes will be as catalysts for a
variety of chemical operations in which prior art metal soaps currently are used.
The use of the complexes results in certain advantages in addition to the high
metal content. The complexes are not only soluble in organic media, but they also
exhibit some of the important properties of the metal oxides used in hetero-
geneous catalysts. Consequently, they will be useful in bridging the gap betweenheterogeneous and homogeneous catalysts by supplying advantages common to
each.
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While metal alkoxide oligomers, including bimetallic types, have been
known and exhibit similar properties, novel metal oxy hydroxy acylate oligomers
can be produced more easily, at lower cost, and with greater heterogeneity as
complexes of the present invention.
The manganese, cobalt, iron, copper and nickel high metal content
complexes are useful as catalysts for many chemical reactions, either directly as
homogeneous catalysts or in preparation of heterogeneous catalysts. They can be
used as anti-knock agents for gasoline, fuel additive type combustion improvers,smoke or toxic fume suppreæants, unsaturated polyester cure promoters, driers,
and ultra violet co-catalysts for inks and coatings. The iron, and to a lesser
degree, the manganese and cobalt complexes are useful in preparation of catalysts
for gasification of primary fuels.
As oxidation or polymerization catalysts, the complexes are useful, for
example as curing agents for floor covering mastics; curing agents (especially the
iron and cobalt types3 for core binders; and catalysts in the restricted oxidation
reaction for production of sulfur from sour gas, in the sour gas wet process with
absorption agents for precipitation of sulfur.
A further application is as retention aids for volatile toxic substances,
for which they may serve as oil-carried scavengers in scrubbers; as scavengers for
various oxides of nitrogen; in systems treating combustion products of power
plants; and extracting toxic constituents from ashes.
The manganese, cobalt, iron and copper complexes find use in surface
preparation for adhesives for promoting bonding to various surfaces, and the
copper and cobalt types are valuable as catalysts for improving rubber adhesion.~5 Other applications of the complexes of the invention are as agents for
ultraviolet screeners (manganese, cobalt, iron, copper); as micronutrient sources
(manganese, cobalt, iron, copper); as lubricant additives, (manganese, cobalt); and
as wire drawing lubricants.
The characteristic high metal content (with hydrocarbon solubility)
makes these complexes useful also in manufacture of glass coatings affording
tinting and infrared screening areas, since they will decompose cleanly to the
oxide state; for metallizing; for baked-on refractory high-temperature coatings
5 and adhesives; and for high-temperature refractory surface resistance coatings,
and other conductive coatings.
The manganese, cobalt, and iron type compositions (some of which are
photosensitive), show a high degree of magnetic susceptibility from which follows
utility for manufacture of tapes for magnetic recording devices, and of
10 particulates used in magnetic or electrostatic printing; and for preparation of
liquid and dry toners, and of charge control agents for electrostatic printing.
The copper complexes are useful active components in fungicides,
anti-fouling paints for marine use, and stabilizers for sulfur compounds.
To prepare the overbased metal complexes, a reaction is initiated with
15 heating if necessary between a previously formed, or formed-in-situ, divalent
transitional metal carboxylate and a predetermined excess of divalent transitional
metal hydroxide formed-in-situ from the metal or its lower oxide in the presence
of an oxygen-supplying material such as air. Usually mineral spirits is a
convenient diluent or reaction medium. The reaction end poin~ is reached when
20 the soluble metal content of the reaction mass reaches a maximum. Generally
there will be little or no unreacted residues at this stage if the reactant amounts
are carefully formulated, but any unreacted metallic residues can be removed by
f iltration.
For many purposes, the reaction product is left in solution in the
25 reaction medium as a solvent, and the product solution may be then adjusted to
the desired concentration by distilling off excess reaction medium or by solvent
addition. Fairly mobile solutions have been obtained containing more than 50%
metal by weight.
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The metal contained in the overbased complexes of the invention must
be at least in part a transitional metal. When the complexes contain additional
metals, any desirable metal can be utilized such as calcium, barium, zinc, etc. Of
the transitional metals, copper and those elements found in the first transition
5 series, namely, scandium, titanium, vanadium, chromiurn, manganese, iron, cobalt
and nickel are preferred.
Although specific details will vary, each transition metal complex is
prepared by a similar general method. When a metal oxide such as manganese
oxide is used, it is slurried with an excess of water and with what, by ordinary
10 stoichiometric considerations, would be a deficiency of organic acids at a selected
mole ratio of metal-to-acid, agitated, and heated at the reflux temperature until
no further reaction occurs, and the "excess" metal oxide has been completely
converted to hydroxide. The batch is heated to about 120-149C (300F) or
higher, until the free water is eliminated. Air is introduced into the mix at 110-
15 150 C until insoluble manganous hydroxide has been solubilized by conversion intothe complex. Previously bound water which is freed during air or oxygen blowing
may be removed during the blowing step. Appearance and metal content analysis
determination indicate when processing can be terminated.
If manganese metal is employed rather than manganese oxide, some air
20 may be introduced to facilitate the formation of manganous oxide or hydroxide in
the first step, but under some control to avoid a too large excess, which would
result in formation of some insoluble higher oxides together with manganese
hydroxide. A similar process is used with cobalt, nickel and iron metals. Either
copper metal or cuprous oxide may be employed to form the copper complex~ but
25 in both instances, air is required for oxidation.
The mole ratio of total metal or metals to total acids which
characterizes specific complexes can be found by determining the metal content
of the complex and comparing it stoichiometrically to the quantity of reactant
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acids used in the synthesis of the complex. The metal content can be determined
by complexometric titration procedures or other conventional methods.
Various mixtures or formulations of reactant monobasic organic acids
may be used to facilitate processing or for collateral reasons. Examples of
5 organic carboxylic acids useful in the invention include propionic acid, butyric
acid, 2-ethylhexoic acid, commercially available standardized nonanoic acid,
neodecanoic acid, deic acid, stearic acid, naphthenic acids, tall oil acid, and other
natural and synthetic acids and acid mixtures.
The sulfonic acids include the aliphatic and the aromatic sulfonic
10 acids. They are illustrated by petroleum sulfonic acids or the acids obtained by
treating an alkylated aromatic hydrocarbon with a sulfonating agent, e.g.,
chlorosulfonic acid, sulfur trioxide, oleum, sulfuric acid, or sulfur dioxide and
chlorine. The sulfonic acids obtained by sulfonating alkylated benzenes,
naphthylenes, phenol, phenol sulfide, or diphenyl oxide are especially useful.
Specific examples of the sulfonic acids are dodecylbenzene sulfonic
acid, didodecylbenzene sulfonic acid, dinonylbenzene sulfonic acid, octadecyl-
diphenyl ether sulfonic acid, bis-cetylphenyl disulfide sulfonic acid, cetoxy-capryl-
benzene sulfonic acid, dilauryl beta-naphthalene sulfonic acid, the sulfonic acid
derived by the treatment of polyisobutene having a molecular weight of 1500 with
20 chlorosulfonic acid, paraffin wax sulfonic acid, cetyl-cyclopentane sulfonic acid,
lauryl-cyclohexane sulfonic acid, and polyethylene (molecular weight of 750)
sulfonic acid, etc.
When attempts are made to prepare overbased products by the
procedure of the invention but using only one acid, it appears that the use of the
25 single acid limits the metal-to-acid mole ratio to about ~.75. In this context,
"single acid" comprehends, for example, such an isomeric mixture as commercial
neodecanoie acid where a variety of isomers are present though of substantially
uniform molecular weight for the entire composition, and also even a single
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narrow cut of naphthenic acids, where there occur acid molecules of diverse
structure and some difference in molecular weights, or tall oil acids with
saturation differences.
In the initial reaction batch, other materials may be used for various
ancillary purposes, for example, to serve as dispersing agents or to produce
dispersing agents for other reactants. Hydrazine can be included to reduce
especially manganese initially present in higher than the manganous state. Polyols
or alkoxyalkanols can be added as promoters or to reduce a viscosity of the
reactive mixture. Acids such as formic, acetic or hydrochloric acid can be
included as promoters.
There may be employed according to conventional practice, viscosity
modifiers such as glycols, alcohol ethers or glycol ethers, amines, phosphate
esters, etc. However, higher metal-to-acid ratios may be attained with use of
alcohol- or glycol-ethers. Also anti-oxidants may be employed if desired, such as
the "Eastazone" listed in some of the Examples below.
Some ancillary constituents may react and combine with the metal,
but the net effect is not deleterious to the process or ultimate product. ~or
example, alkoxyalkanols of higher molecular weight and boiling ranges may
become a combined organic moiety in the final product.
Several examples of the mixed organic acid salt complexes and the
method of preparation are presented below in tabular listings giving for each
example: (a~ the raw materials and amounts used; (b) for the solution product
usually brought to 1,~0~ gram final batch weight, (i) the weight percent metal
content after removal of any unreacted or insoluble metal or oxide, (ii) the total
metal-t~total acid molar ratio ("M/A"), (iii) the weight percent conYersion of the
metal available in the source, and in some examples, (iv) other properties such as
percent by weight of non-volatile material ("non-volatiles" or "N.V.") which is the
presumed active complex in the solution product; and (c) for the "active
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component", that is the solid obtained upon removing the diluent or solvent, the
metal content by weight percent.
The percentages referred to in the tables and elsewhere are weight
percentages, unless otherwise stated. The molar ratio and conversion values are
5 equally pertinent or applicable to the solution product and to the isolated active
component, which is found to have a complex constitution, of the nature
previously described.
The actual reaction product amount in the product solution i5
determinable by evaporation of the solvent and any ancillary material such as
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NVM ("non-volatile material") determination procedure.
For the raw material under each example heading, excepting Example
5, given in pounds, in column ~'Bt" there are given for each batch component the
amount used in grams for a thousand grams of the batch solution product obtained
with the designated metal content; and, for certain components in the column
"Moles" or "Eq", respectively the gram-moles, or the gram-equivalent based upon
apparent molecular weight, as given by chemical analysis. Thus the amounts
stated represent the active content of the designated components or, in the case
of the "principal1' organic acids which are technical or standardized mixtures, the
gram-mole or grams-equivalent figure is based upon the determined acid number
for the nominal raw material acid.
For ammonium hydroxide, hydrochloric acid and hydrazine hydrate, the
amounts stated are weights used respectively of the usual concentrated ammonia,
37% acid and 35% hydrazine water solutions. The mineral SpilitS used have a
boiling range of about 149 to 205C. The amounts of air given in cubic feet
(taken at ambient conditions, without reduction to standard or dry conditions) are
the total amounts blown by the time of oxidation completion.
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MANGANESE COMP~EXES
The manganese complexes generally are prepared as follows. A
mixture of rnanganese metal, or any acid-soluble divalent manganese compound,
but preferably manganous oxide, water and the selected acids in mineral spirits or
5 other diluent medium is agitated in preferably an inert atmosphere such as
nitrogen with heating as required to initiate an exothermic reaction and until
completion of a first stage reaction resulting in a homogeneous, opaque, light tan,
viscous, usually paste-like first stage product or intermediate. When manganese
metal is used as the source of manganese rather than manganese oxide, some air is
10 introduced to facilitate the formation of manganous oxide or hydroxide, but not
enough air to lead to the formation of insoluble higher oxides or hydroxides. The
first stage reaction intermediate or product is oxidized with heating by
introducing gaseous oxygen, for example, by air blowing.
Though the dehydration may also be carried on during the aforegoing
15 steps, preferably the first stage product is itself substantially dehydrated before
oxidation, usually by heating the batch above 100 C, with the nitrogen gas blanket
being maintained.
The progress of the first stage reactiGn is followed by some form of
analytic control with periodic sampling of the batch. ~or example, a sample of
2~ the reaction mixture can be centrifuged or filtered and the color of the lighter
precipitate examined for the color of residual greenish manganous oxide or black
manganese metal powder. Actual chemical analysis of the liquid (supernatant in
the centrifuge tube or the filtrate) for dissolved manganese until a constant
maximum of manganese content in successive samples also indicates substantial
25 completion of the first stage reaction.
When it is determined that the first stage of the reaction has been
completed, it is desirable to remove any free water present in the reaction
mixture~ The term free water refers to any water present which is not chemically
bound to the first stage reaction product. The free water is removed by heating
the reaction mixture to a temperature above 100 C and maintaining this
temperature until dehydration is completed.
In the third stage of the reaction the batch temperature is raised to
about 140 C or higher and air is bubbled into the reaction mass. In some instances
the air is preheated to about 150C. It is preferred that the air blowing for the
third stage should not be begun without first completing the second stage product
dehydration. Some bound water is freed during the oxidation stage, and this is
removed during oxidation. During this oxidation, the viscosity of the batch and its
turbid opacity are reduced progressively to result ultimately in a dark brown
transparent reaction product solution form.
The third stage blowing is continued with heating until there is
substantially no further water or immiscible phase being distilled over into theseparator, and until the reaction batch reaches the uniform dark brown or the
manganese content becomes constant in the filtrate of periodically taken batch
samples. Due to impurities in technical grade reactants, or compromise with
optimum process conditions, the crude liquid product may require clarification as
by filtration while hot, with a filter aid. Mineral spirits washings of the filter
cake are added to the filtrate.
The liquid product may be diluted to a lower concentration by mineral
spirits or other solvent. Advantageously, the product may be vacuum distilled to a
higher concentration containing as much as 75-80% solids. Of course, where it isknown that filtration of the resulting concentrated solution will not be
unacceptably slowed down, solvent may be distilled from the product in the
reaction vessel.
Moreover, it generally is possible, by removing all solvent and other
volatile constituents or components from the batch to obtain a substantially
anhydrous, usually brittle, solid product. Products have been thus obtained withmanganese contents in excess of 60%.
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It has been noted that when the usual manganese liquid product is
diluted with solvents and treated with aqueous hydrochloric acid, there develops a
green color usually characteristic of the trivalent manganese ion. Thereafter,
upon heating in air, the thus-treated product generally becomes colorless which
5 indicates the manganese ion is being reduced. This is consistent with the known
instability or easy reduction of trivalent manganese ion.
By the preferred process and process conditions, a very high
manganese recovery, that is, conversion of the manganese to the soluble product
form, generally has been readily obtained exceeding 95% and frequently 99%.
As a manganese source, the metal is usually less desirable than a
manganous compound, especially manganous oxide, because under the more
acceptable and readily maintained process conditions, with the metal as the
source, some inactive manganese by-products are formed, probably higher oxides
or hydrated oxides of manganese. This results in a slight reduction of the
15 conversion, i.e., yield of soluble manganese in the product.
In certain instances with manganese metal where ~ir has been
introduced at an early stage in the overall operation and before completion of
what has been here termed the "first stage", appreciable solids are observed after
the third stage oxidation step is deemed completed, the crude batch product
20 filters slowly, and the conversion of manganese is reduced. ~owever, after
settling for several hours, the crude batch product is readily filterable. ~fter the
unreacted manganese or insoluble manganese components are removed, the
product is acceptable as an overbased composition for many purposes.
Process-wise with respect to manganese, it is important that an
25 appreciable amount of water be present during the first stage reaction, especially
with metallic manganese as the manganese source. Also the oxidation by air
blo~ing in the third stage reaction preferably should be carried out with heating in
the latter part OI the process.
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Broadly, it may be stated that at atmospheric pressure, the first
reaction stage, for which in practical sense the presence of water is required, is to
be conducted below 100 C, and the second and third stages above 100C. More
specifically temperature ranges of about 60 to about 120C are useful for the
first stage, and temperatures of from about 100 to about 160C for the second
and third stages.
In the manganese examples reported below in Tables I - III, the process
usually is carried out under reflux conditions in the first stage until dehydration or
water removal begins. The batch heating generally is begun as materials are
added. Where used, the hydrazine hydrate and hydrochloric acid are added mainly
after the manganese source.
For the first stage in these examples, (apart from Example 4 using
metallic manganese noted below, and the comparative Example 1 with 7-114 hours
total for the first stage, of which 1-1/2 hours are below 126 C, and 5-1/4 hours at
temperatures from 126 to 154C), the times reguired are about 4-1/2 to 5-1/2
hours below 100C, followed by a period of about 2 to 4 hours at about 100 C todehydrate before introducing air.
For the third or oxidation stage, 4 to 5 hours of air blowing is required
in Examples 2-4, 7-8, at 129 to 142C; in Example 1, about 3-114 hours between
147-154 C; but in Example 6 about 7-3/4 hours of which 5-1/2 hours are between131 C and 146 C, after 2 hours between 110-128 C.
In Example 4 after 12 hours for the nominal first stage and
dehydration, the final air oxidation requires about 1-1/2 hours at 138 C.
In Example 5 (batch quantities in pounds) the first stage requires about
5-1/3 hours with 1/8 hours for bringing the batch to 99~ C and the balance of time
at 90-99C. Without prior dehydration and interruptions of heating, the batch
requires abollt 36 hours of air blowing at temperatures varying considerably butmainly in the range of 123 -148 C. Air blowing is begun at 89 C as the
temperature is being raised.
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Particularly noteworthy for process comparison are the low solution
product manganese content (6.23%), low metal-to-acid molar ratio (0.92) or
equivalent ratio (1.84) and hence basicity (84%) of the product solution and the low
manganese conversion (13%) of Example 1 where water is not used (except for a
5 trace contributed by the hydrazine solution) for the first stage of the process, as
compared with Example 2, using water, and other examples with notable amounts
(e.g. 9 to 21 gram mols) of water. Although otherwise the charge is about the
same (in total equivalents of the same acids but in somewhat differing acid ratios,
and with like amounts of manganese), the solution product of Example 2 contains
39.4% manganese and has a metal-to-acid molar ratio of about 5.73 or eguivalent
ratio of 11.7, 1070% basicity, and 96.5% conversion. Also the content of
manganese in the solid active component obtainable from the respective product
solutions are guite different, 38.8% and 50.8%. The effect of the water in
Example 2, or conversely of the lack of water in Example 1, is evident particularly
lS in view of slow first stage reaction even at 124 C and long hold above 150 C for
completion and second stage dehydration before oxidation, as contrasted with the
milder process conditions for the first stage in Example 2 and others as noted
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complex products, immediately apparent from the tables, are remarkably high in
view of the hydrocarbon solubility evidenced by the metal content of the liquid
products. Also notable is Example 10 where Yvithout other organic acids,
5naphthenic acid ~'bottoms~ reactant, of wide composition and molecular weight
range is used, thus imparting the required plural acid diversity or heterogeneity.
The ultimate particles of the products of Examples 2-14 appear, by
electron microscopy and diffraction on solid manganese complex product, and by
X-ray diffraction on solid and solution products, each to be constituted of a
lOpolynuclear metal oxide, distorted spinel (Mn3O4) crystalline core of about 50 to
loOR edge size, which core is surrounded or encapsulated by a matrix of
amorphous organic ligand material. From other considerations especially infraredinvestigations, the amorphous organic matrix is comprised of manganese-
containing organic groupings, typically as metal carboxylate groupings, or more
15particularly metal hydroxyl carboxylate groupings. Some of the organic groupings
are retained by ionic and hydrogen bonding especially at crystallite face oxygensites, and some absorptively. In the solid, amorphous clusters of these
encapsulated structures occur up to about 300R size. By freezing point
depressions of non-associative solvents such as carbon tetrachloride, the average
20molecular weight for these manganese complexes typically appears to be 900-100,
about five times that of analogous soaps.
~lso by freezing point depression by the manganese compositions in
associative solvents such as benzene and cyclohexane, average molecular weights
of about 15,000 to 20,000 are observed. By gel permeation chromatography in
25tetrahydrofuran ~THF), the average molecular weight of manganese complexes is
on an order greater than 105, and in carbon tetrachloride, the "molecule" sizes are
Irom lO0 to l,oOOR. The large~t fragment derived by heating for mass spectrum
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As to other properties and characteristics, the manganese complexes
show strong UV absorption in the 320-205 millimicron band, and manganese is
5 present in the divalent and trivalent states. Magnetic susceptibility (10 6emu/g;
room temperature) is usually about 51 for the manganese, as compared with 50 for
the cobalt, 8640 for the iron and 4.8 for the copper complexes described below.
EXAMPLES- OTHER METALS
Using at least tWG different acids in the batch, chosen by the
10 principles discussed above and with air blowing for oxidation, highly overbased
compositions have been prepared with other transition metals using similar
apparatus, though with some modifications of method. Table IV summarizes the
Examples containing cobalt and copper.
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Cobalt Examples (Table IV)
With air introduction from the start, the mixture of Example Co-l
having considerable excess cobalt metal powder is heated to and held at about
70-80 C, under total water reflux. During this heating, the reaction mixture is
in two liquid phases and becomes quite viscous. In addition to the water initially
charged and formed in the reaction, water is added to replace any carried off bythe air and not condensed for reflux. Additions of mineral spirits also are made as
needed to maintain fluidity. When the soluble cobalt content of the batch
becomes substantially constant after about 9.5 hours of reaction, a further
reaction with insoluble cobalt materials is promoted by an increase in
temperature.
The temperature is raised slowly to about 154 C while nitrogen is
bubbled therethrough resulting in a large increase in soluble cobalt content anddehydration of the product. After about seven hours at the increased
temperature, the reaction is complete. The unreacted excess metal is removed by
filtration, resulting in 2335g of a clear product solution containing 9.88% cobalt.
After further distillation of mineral spirits to a cobalt concentration
of 36.33%, the final product is a clear, dark-brown mineral spirit solution of the
complex. At 1% cobalt metal content, the solubility in mineral spirits is good.
The preparation of Example Co-2 using the same three acids is
similarly carried out, with the primary difference in this example from Co-l being
omission of Cellosolve and of triethanolamine. Early in the dehydration stage, the
mixture changes from blue to greenish. The first and second stages run about 13-112 hours each.
A dark-brown product solution (1956g) containing 12.44% cobalt is
obtained, which com~ined with the washings of the filter cake represents 306g ofcob~lt reacted. A clear dark-brown final liguid product is obtained upon
concentration to 35.9% cobalt. This is a notably high cobalt content and the
mineral spirits solubility is retained.
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In Example Co-3, only two acids are used, 2-ethylhexoic and stearic
acids, and 283g of the cobalt reacts. The procedure again generally follows that
used for Co-l with 400g of the mineral spirits total being added in later periods of
dehydration. Again good solubility in mineral spirits, at high and low ranges of
5 complex-content is observed despite the high metal content.
For the solid state, as in manganese compositions, ultimate particles
comprise a cubic crystallite-core (here of CoO oxide type) encapsulated with some
amorphous material, evidently metal hydroxyl carboxylate groupings with bound
and unbound-OH. In carbon tetrachloride, freezing point depression indicate
10average molecular weight on the order of 500~100; by gel permeation chromato-
graphy, molecular sizes of 100 to 1,000R and larger are observed. In the solid, the
particle core size is again on the order of about 50 to lo0R, with amorphous
clusters of about 300-400R.
Copper Examples (Table IV)
15In Example Cu-l, where the metal source is a stoichiometric amount of
cuprous oxide, the three-acid mixture is heated to and held in the range of 71-
78C for 11 hours with continued introduction of air and total water reflux with
further additions of water. The batch during further reaction after disappearance
of the oxide is a single phase thin solution. The batch is heated to and held at
20 about 150 C for 4 hours to remove water. Nitrogen is bubbled through the
mixture. The product solution is filtered, and then concentrated by remoYing
mineral spirits to a brown liquid product of 35.98% copper content and a 57.4%
copper content in the solid. Other properties are listed in Table IV.
The four-acid mixture of Example Cu-2 reacted by a procedure quite
25 similar to that of Example Cu-l results in a final liquid product containing 36.3~6
copper, and 61.2% N.V. solids with 59.3% copper.
Again good mineral spirits solubility is observed despite the high
metal-to-acid ratios, and the product complexes seem very stable to heat as
compared to the known class of overbased copper carboxylates.
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In these copper complexes, the oxide core of CuO crystallite is
triclinic, with again associated solubilizing amorphous organic material, especially
of the metal hydroxyl carboxylate form. Freezing point depression in trichloro-
benzene indicates average molecular weight on the order of 1,000~100, and in
~; 5 carbon tetrachloride by gel permeation chromatography, molecule sizes of 100 to
,oooA and larger are observed. In the solid a uniform particle distribution of
about 50 to loOA core size is observed.
Iron Examples (Table IVa)
An iron complex is prepared as a mineral spirits solution product from
the mixture of Example Fe-l in Table IVa, by heating at about 115-131 C for about
10 hours, but here with continuous air introduction throughout, as well as
continuous removal of water. The batch solution product after settling is filtered
and then concentrated to a final product solution containing 17.9% iron. The solid
- product contains 26% iron.
-~ 15 In Example Fe-2, the procedure is similar to that of ~e-l, except that
after the first 6 houw of air bubbling, during which the temperature is brought up
to about 87C and held for about four hours, nitrogen is bubbled through the
~, mixture for the remainder of the time while dehydration and concentration is
carried out with the temperature being raised to about 156C. The final liquid
product contains 29.7% iron, or 67.7% solids with 43.9% iron. ~ -
From the diffraction and electron microscopy studies, the ultimate
particles of the solid complex product appear to have an Fe3O4 spinel crystallite
core similar to that of the manganese complexes, and the core is surrounded by
larger amounts of the amorphous metal organic material. The ultimate particle
cores are about 50 to loOA, but the amorphous clusters of the ultimate particlesare up to several hundred Angstroms in size. In trichlorobenzene, freezing pointdepressions indicate an average molecular weight of 800~100, while gel permeation
chromatography in carbon tetrachloride indicates molecular sizes of 100 to l,oOOR
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Nickel Examples (Table 1VQ)
Nickel complexes can be prepared by a process similar to those
described above. One difference is that the reaction mixtures must be heated to
higher temperatures, e.g., about 210-215C to complete the reaction. Accord-
5 ingly, higher boiling diluents are required to be used in the reaction since mineralspirits will boil off. These higher boiling diluents may include various types and
grades of hydrocarbon oils, both natural and synthetic. Generally it is preferred
to use a mixture of mineral spirits and a higher boiling diluent oil to maintain
fluidity. It is possible, of course, to use only mineral spirits and conduct the
10 reaction at an elevated pressure, but this requires more expensive apparatus.
Sufficient nickel must be incorporated into the reaction mixture to
provide complexes containing the desired quantity of metal in solution. An excess
of nickel can be used to increase the speed of the reaction, and any unreacted
nickel can be removed from the solution product by filtration.
15 Example Ni-l
A nickel complex is prepared as a mineral spirits and lubricating oil
solution product from the mixture of Example Ni-l in Table IVa by bubbling air
through the mixture heated to a temperature of about 90 C over a period of about
22 hrs. A portion of the NH40H (32g) is added when the heat is applied followed
20 by the potassium iodide. Other portions (lOg each) of the ammonium hydroxide are
added after eight and ten hours of heating when the temperature of the reaction
mixture is about gO C. l`he nickel content of the solution at this time is about
15.7%.
The flow of air is stopped and replaced by a flow of nitrogen through
25 the reaction mixture. Water is removed from the reaction mixture as the
temperature is raised to about 210 C over a period of about 16 hours. 50me of the
oil (lOOg~ is added to replace the water nnd mineral spirits removed during the
heating. The reaction product is filtered and the filtrate contains 28.1% nickel
and a metal to acid mole ratio of 3.7.
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The mixture of Ni-2 in Table IVa is prepared and air is bubbled through
the mixture at 5 CFH as the mixture is heated to a temperature of about 90C
over a period of about 30 hours. The air is replaced by nitrogen and the
5 temperature of the mixture is raised to about 210 C over a period of about four
hours and maintained at about 200-210 C for four additional hours. The reaction
solution is filtered, and product is found to contain 51.496 nickel with a metal to
acid mole ratio of 15.4. The oil solution product containing 51.4% exhibits good
solubility characteristics in mineral spirits, oil and xylene.
10 BIMETALLIC COMPLEXES
Polymetallic complexes are also similarly producible utilizing plural
metal sources in the reaction batch as exemplified for the metal pairs manganese
and zinc, manganese and barium, manganese and cobalt, set forth in Examples M-
1, M-2, and M-3 respectively of Table V.
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the ]atter two components are successively added. The mixture is heated up to
126 C to complete the reaction of the manganese oxide, and then air blowing is
5 begun, with simultaneous dewatering and concentration as mineral spirits and
water are removed. The batch is subjected to the air blowing until the solution is
clear and then filtered.
The filtrate product has the indicated high total metal content of
39.4% and a metal to acid mole ratio of 9.1 with retained solubility. By
10 diffraction and electron study as with prior examples, the dried products again
exhibit the previously described oxide crystallite-cored and matrix type structure
in the ultimate solution-dispersed particles, with both metals 2resent in the core.
The core is essentially of the spinel structure.
In Example M-2, the batch ingredients and procedure are similar to
15 Example M-l, except for the use OI the barium monohydrate. After all the barium
hydroxide reacts quickly within a few minutes, the manganous oxide and hydrazine
are successively added and heating begun to obtain substantially complete oxide
reaction even below 98C. After some initial higher heating to 134C to begin
dehydration, the air blowing is initiated and continued at somewhat lower
20 temperatures until the solution becomes clear, with simultaneous further
dewatering and concentration. The final batch liquid is filtered.
The filtrate product is similar to that of Example M-l in high metal
content and M/A ratio with excellent hydrocarbon solubility. The ultimate
"particle" structure contains atoms of barium as well as manganese in the core
25 crystallite which is bflsically of a spinel structure.
In Example M-3, the ingredients of the first column comprising
s-lbstantially all of the acids and the cobalt powder are charged into the reactor
and air bubbling is begun with heating to about 71 C for fGur hours. Thereafter
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the ingredients of the second column are added, first the manganous oxide slurried
in the Cellosolve and water, the hydrazine and as reheating is progressing, the
propionic acid. The heating is continued up to 97.5C, until complete reaction of
the oxide, and then dehydration at higher temperature is begun, followed by the
S air blowing again until clear. During the latter heating, water is removed from
the mixture. The clear solution is filtered.
The filtered product has the indicated high metal content of about
40.0%, 58.1% (43.7%Mn + 14.4%Co) in the solid and a M/A mole ratio of about 6.7
with good solubility. The product has the spinel crystallite-cored particle
10 structure, and some of the cobalt atoms in the core appear to be substituted for
certain manganese atoms.
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